Nelson,
There were also two #1s at Burlington. Train #1 on the Hannibal Division
was mainly a mail and express train from Burlington to St Louis with
heavyweight equipment. The other #1 of course was the east-west Denver
Zephyr. I doubt the two were easily confused when seeing them.
I have the Trains magazine DVD. I think the article that Pete is
referring to is in the June 1959 issue.
Bill
On 4/14/2011 8:04 AM, Nelson Moyer wrote:
> Ken informed me that #15 was the Zephyr Rocket Northbound and #8 was the
> Zephyr Rocket Southbound, so apparently there were more than one #15 and #8
> through Burlington. He didn't say whether those train numbers were on the RI
> timetable, the Burlington timetable, or both.
>
> The UI library has a subscription to Trains, so I'll look up the article on
> the fast mail in the archives.
>
> Thanks for all the information.
>
> Nelson
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> AS I stated earller..29 is the Fast Mail..Not 15...Look at your operating
> TT. 29 overtakes 15 at Ottumwa.....Look at the details of the TT..15 is
> making all the intemediate stops..29 only stops at the division
> points...Burllington, Ottumwa...Creston and goes into CB transfer 2 hours
> ahead of 15. 15's purpose was to serve the intermediate stations across
> Iowa with stops or moving mail dispatch and pickup..29's purpose was to get
> the UP West Coast and Pacific Northwet mail to CB Transfer as fast as
> possible. 29 carried only a "rider coach" for the train crew.....
>
> TRAINS magazine carried a feature...I think it was sometime in 1959...some
> significant anniversary of the fast mail's inauguration on Train 29 and its
> operation..It may have been reprinted again at some later date.
>
> The Fast Mail only ran westbound...No. 8 was his counterpart..but not on a
> fast schedule..
>
> Also No. 2 as I said earlier is Zephyr 9902 originating at Hannibal as No.
> 42 and then running local Burlington to Chicago with stops at Monmouth,
> Galesburg, Galva, Kewanee Buda Princeton Mendota, Earlville Dandwich, Plano,
> and Aurora
>
> I think this answers all your quesitons.
>
> Pete
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelson Moyer<ku0a@mchsi.com>
> To: CBQ<CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wed, Apr 13, 2011 7:57 pm
> Subject: [CBQ] Train Number Question Followup
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> Here is the information I've gotten so far.
>
> Employee TT 81, February 1, 1953
>
> Train #1/#10 Denver Zephyr
> Train #17/#18 California Zephyr
> Train #3/#30 Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr
> Train #5/#2 Zephyr 9902
> Train #7/#14 Mail and Express Local
> Train #11/#12 Nebraska Zephyr
> Train #15/? Fast Mail
> Train #19/#6 Coloradoan
> Train #29/? ?
> Train #2/? Burlington, Galesburg and Chicago Local
>
> There is one discrepancy in the responses - train #15 is listed in several
> places as the fast mail westbound, while one response says train #29 was the
> fast mail. I still don't have the train numbers for the Eastbound Fast Mail
> or the Eastbound Burlington, Galesburg and Chicago Local. I still don't know
> for sure the name of train #29 Westbound and what the Eastbound train number
> might have been for this train. Did the fast mail only run Westbound? I'd be
> really happy is someone could fill in the question marks and correct any
> errors.
>
> Nelson
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